A Moment in Kentucky History: The Colonel's Lady

WEKU | By wendy barnett

Published October 11, 2019 at 6:00 AM EDT

Think History is our daily segment from Kentucky Humanities. Today, Bill Goodman tells us about the Colonel's Lady, Claudia Ellen Sanders, the wife of Colonel Sanders.

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